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The word "feng shui" was first put forward in the book of burial. "Together with the wind and scattered, boundary water. The ancients gathered to make it last forever, and the deeds stopped, so it was called Feng Shui. "

Since ancient times, why do people in China believe in Feng Shui so much? Why do so many people study hard and their dreams come true? Why do so many people hate opposition and want to get rid of it quickly? First of all, we should make clear what is Feng Shui, what is Feng Shui and what is the meaning of Feng Shui.

China ancients called geomantic omen geomantic omen, also called geography. Let's read together: geomantic geography. We might as well explain it this way: the research and analysis theory of geomancy (observing the sky), geomancy (geodesy), wind (airspace), water (hydrology and water quality) and land (topography and geology).

On the earth, what is the largest substance, that is, wind, water and soil. What is the most basic substance for human existence? It is also wind (gas), water and land. Please don't forget the "land" when talking about Feng Shui.

On the earth, except for the matter from celestial bodies, almost all matter is all things, including human beings. It can be seen that the ancient geomantic omen refers to all the substances on the earth, and geomantic omen is a theory to study the microscopic substances (air, water and soil) and the macro environment (heaven and earth) on which human beings depend for survival and development.

According to the ancients' cognition, except land and water, everything else is space, and there is only wind in space. The ancients believed that wind, space and sky were linked. The wind in Feng Shui is not only air, but also space and sky.

The word feng shui originated in Fuxi era. According to the simple map developed by Taihao Fuxi, it is inferred that the earth has a period of geomantic omen. "Su Wen Classic" records: "Yan Di said: one fog, two geomantic omen, three landscapes, four hills, five rivers, six rivers, seven small rivers, eight water shortages and nine water shortages." The feng shui referred to here should be the original meaning of feng shui.

Laozi said: one life two, two lives three, three lives everything. One is the sky, so there will be water one day, one is the earth, the third is what, and the third is water. Translate this sentence of Laozi: Nature is aquatic in heaven and earth, and everything in heaven and earth is aquatic.

Later, some people in the Yan army classified Feng Shui as one of the five Taoist techniques, which is wrong. Because in ancient China, not only the so-called Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism were all happy about it, but also politicians, military strategists and educators regarded geomantic geography as knowledge and knowledge that must be mastered. The so-called astronomical geography knows everything, and it is also true that three religions and nine streams know everything. Only later, some gifted wizards introduced Feng Shui into a direction that was too utilitarian and mysterious.

In Modern Chinese Dictionary, the term Feng Shui is defined as: it refers to the geographical situation of residential bases and cemeteries, such as the context and the trend of mountains and rivers. Superstitious people believe that the quality of geomantic omen can affect the rise and fall of families and children.

It can be said that the definition of Feng Shui in Modern Chinese Dictionary is "refers to the geographical situation of residential bases and cemeteries, such as the trend of mountains and rivers", which is one-sided and narrows Feng Shui. The definition of "superstitious people think that the quality of Feng Shui can affect the rise and fall of families and children" is to vilify Feng Shui.

How to treat Feng Shui? In 2004, the National Housing and Living Environment Engineering Center issued the technical essentials of healthy housing in 2004, which clearly pointed out: "residential feng shui, as a cultural heritage, has a far-reaching impact on people's consciousness and behavior. It contains both scientific and superstitious elements. Looking at the theory of Feng Shui from a dialectical point of view and correctly understanding the consistency and contradiction between residential feng shui and modern living concepts are conducive to absorbing its essence, abandoning its dross, emphasizing the harmonious unity between man and nature, paying attention to the overall relationship between living and nature and environment, and enriching the ecological, cultural and psychological connotation of healthy houses. "

In daily life, the word Feng Shui can be interpreted in two ways. One is in a broad sense, referring to the nearby natural environment such as space, mountains, water and trees. For example, the feng shui here is really good. It is really a treasure trove of feng shui. One is narrow sense, especially yin house (ancestral grave) and yang house (housing). For example, doing feng shui, your feng shui is good, and so on.

In ancient times, most of Yang houses and Yin houses, whether official houses or residential houses, nobles or civilians, were contributed by Feng Shui masters. Therefore, modern people must admit that Feng Shui has made an indelible contribution to the reproduction and development of the Chinese nation.

The core idea of geomantic omen is the unity of heaven and man. Take heaven and earth as the object of observation and understanding, people-oriented, people-oriented service purposes. It is real humanistic knowledge.

Yi Futang believes that the real ancient Feng Shui in China should be

It is a kind of survival knowledge formed by social activities such as ancient human reproduction, governing the country and ensuring the people.

It is a profound knowledge to study the role of nature in human beings.

It is an excellent traditional culture in China.

It's a technique of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil,

It is a folk activity that has been circulating for thousands of years.

It is a unique product of China's philosophy centered on the unity of man and nature.

It is a practical technology for the selection and optimization of human settlements formed by accumulated experience in practice.

It is a broad school formed by the academic mixture of materialism and idealism of ancient people in China.

Science and metaphysics go hand in hand, essence and dross coexist, which lags behind modern technology and surpasses modern science. This is a systematic theory.

It is a valuable intangible historical and cultural heritage.

Yi Futang's personal understanding is that Feng Shui in China mainly includes the following ten contents. These contents should be considered comprehensively, analyzed comprehensively and given overall consideration.

One: Look at the sky. The influence of cosmic stars on people.

The ancients paid great attention to the influence of the sun, the moon and the stars on human beings, mainly in the aspects of lighting, vertical orientation and date selection in Feng Shui.

The four seasons of Yuanyun are all formed by the cycle of stars, so there is no doubt that the movement of celestial bodies affects people. The so-called integrity is heaven, and the tunnel is also. Where there is genius and land, there is water and everything. Observing the sky, understanding the sky, the sky coming up, the earth downloading, the image in the sky, the formation in the earth, and choosing the place of Feng Shui according to the stars have become the most primitive and basic knowledge in Feng Shui.

China's summer calendar, which was formed thousands of years ago, and the lunar calendar, which is still in use today, all have important contributions from Feng Shui masters.

It is also a very important method in geomantic omen to predict the good or bad luck of the world according to the phenomena in the starry sky.

Seven houses and four surpluses, taking turns on duty. Tianxing also has a series of programs in time, mainly in Tianxing's bird performance day class.

Second: identify the quality. The quality of wind (air), water, ground (soil) and its influence on people.

This is the foundation of geomantic omen.

The wind here refers to the air that people breathe, the water that people eat, the source water, the soil for growing crops and acupoints. Because air, water and soil are the most basic substances for human survival, if the quality of wind (air) is not good, the water quality is not good and the soil quality is not good, it will cause diseases and bring disasters to human beings. I don't think anyone will deny this.

Ancient geomantic omen mainly expected to measure air quality by smelling air, water quality by tasting fish and soil quality by kneading soil.

Snow Cloud: The lush grass and thick soil are one of the ways to measure the quality of Feng Shui according to its use.

This method is introduced in Yi Futang's Ten Methods of Positive Anger.

In ancient times, science and technology were underdeveloped, so feng shui masters should use primitive methods such as seeing, smelling, tasting, kneading and weighing to identify the quality of feng shui land. Today, with the development of science, Feng Shui experts still cling to these simple methods, do not keep pace with the times, do not innovate tools, and do not use scientific instruments to measure air quality, water quality and soil quality. Some people even turn a blind eye to these basic principles. If we give up these simple methods, I think those geomantic sages will be furious and scold us if they are in the spirit of heaven.

Three: look at the shape. The influence of the appearance and emotion of geomantic land on people.

The wind referred to here is both air and space. Water is ditches, streams, rivers, lakes and oceans accumulated by water. Land is a ridge formed by soil accumulation. Later, feng shui experts called the mountain directly behind the location (acupoint) of Yin and Yang's home as dragon, and the other mountains as sand.

In the process of human reproduction, governing the country and ensuring the people, marching and fighting, it is found that it is very important to observe the sky, survey the landform, understand the terrain and distinguish the geology, which is related to the rise and fall of human beings, the long-term stability of the country and the success or failure of the war, so the original geomantic geography theory was formed.

Feng shui experts have found that the shape and appearance of mountains and rivers will affect people's behavior and good or bad luck.

Geomantic omen also personifies and humanizes the mountain and river space, which is understood as emotional expression according to the morphological expression of the mountain and river space. It is auspicious to be affectionate to the family of Yin and Yang, unlucky to be heartless to the family of Yin and Yang, and fierce to be affectionate to the family of Yin and Yang. This is a higher level theory in Feng Shui.

These contents of Feng Shui are called Anthropology. Detailed explanations can be found in Feng Shui classics, such as Kate Sutra, Tsukiji Sutra, Xue Xinfu, Shake the Dragon Sutra, Doubt the Dragon Sutra, Fu Weifu, Instructions for the Son of Man and so on.

Four: take a breath. The effect of qi in the land of geomantic omen on people.

According to Feng Shui, there is an invisible and intangible qi between the three, which is not air, but something that can only be understood, expressed and measured with a compass, and is circulated, gathered, gestated and embodied by the space of heaven, earth and mountains. Qi can be divided into auspicious qi and fierce qi. Only by understanding this kind of qi, accepting it and abandoning fierceness can we reach the highest state of Feng Shui. Therefore, riding the wind is the top technology of Feng Shui.

"The Book of Burial" says that "harmony is the most important thing for qi, shape is the most important thing for qi, potential is the most important thing for qi, soil is the most important thing for qi, and dragon is the most important thing for qi", "shape stops qi, and everything is born" and "hide, hide and anger. Qi of yin and yang, that is, wind, clouds, rain and earth qi.

Yi Futang's three articles, Ten Angers in Internal Syndrome, Ten Angers in External Syndrome and Auspicious and Fierce Fengshui, all introduced the methods of recognizing qi.

Five: measure the edge. Influence of geomantic magnetic field orientation on people.

This is a very important content in Feng Shui. The main measuring tool is the compass. According to the experience of the ancients, it is found that the landscape orientation around Yin and Yang Mansions interacts with the orientation and position of Yin and Yang Mansions, which will have a direct and indirect impact on human beings, and will affect their life and death, fortunes and good fortune. Therefore, a large number of theories have been produced to deduce and infer. Feng shui experts call it regulating qi.

There are six categories of regulating qi:

1: Using innate gossip's static coordination theory.

2. Apply the acquired gossip dynamic balance theory.

3. The theory that the nine planets use the method of purifying Yin and Yang.

4. On the tomb of Sanhe Wang Sheng.

5. Using the theory of star matching landscape.

6. Using the theory that mountains and rivers cooperate with the ternary nine (eight) movement.

Each category is divided into many schools. Some of the contents of the factions are different from each other, some are quite different, and some attack each other.

Regulating qi is the most popular and complicated content in geomantic omen, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. It is the place with the most dross. This is the most attacked academic. Because many contents of regulating qi are mysterious, it is difficult to justify it with scientific explanation and factual verification.

Many people have been adjusting their breath all their lives and wrote a magnificent book, adding a compass layer by layer, with the intention of explaining the essence and exploring the mystery of Feng Shui. This spirit is commendable. But it's easy to get caught up in the small circle of backward learning and can't get rid of it.

People say that Feng Shui is superstitious, because they think that measuring the direction with a compass and saying something good or bad is the whole of Feng Shui, that is, Feng Shui master. This is obviously unfair to Feng Shui.

According to Yi Futang's understanding, regulating qi is not the whole of Feng Shui. Although regulating qi is a very important theory in Feng Shui, it is not the most critical and core theory. This is why ancient philosophers, wise men and Confucians tried their best to create and study thousands of principles and qi, but they could not solve all the mysteries of Feng Shui.

Six: positioning. Location choice and orientation choice of yin and yang family.

After mastering the above principles, you can choose to determine the location of Yin and Yang House. It's called acupoints in feng shui.

Acupoints are the core of Feng Shui, because all efforts of Feng Shui are based on Yin and Yang. All feng shui environments are centered on Yin and Yang families. Because only the true point and the positive point are the places where the vitality of Feng Shui meets, and the auspicious spirit of Feng Shui can be obtained.

It is easy to understand that Yang Zhai will be influenced by Feng Shui, and the place where Yin people are buried will have an impact on his descendants, which is beyond the understanding of modern science. However, according to the experience of the ancients and a large number of facts today, this role does exist, and sometimes it is more obvious than the role of yangzhai. Why is this?

Yi futang is incompetent and cannot explain this truth with scientific principles. But we can't think that everything that modern science can't explain is useless and unreliable. Because science also has limitations, science is not omnipotent, and modern science is not perfect.

After selecting the location of the house of Yin and Yang, choose the most suitable direction for construction to receive the vitality of the surrounding landscape space. It is called the standing direction, and the standing direction has become the key to Feng Shui.

Look at the official buildings in ancient times. They all sit facing south, while Zishan faces noon. It can be seen that Feng Shui pays great attention to the choice of direction.

Seven: choose the time. The effect of the combination of geomantic omen and time on people.

The ancients found that building houses of yin and yang in different directions on different days and months will also play a great role in the rise and fall of people, and even some national, social and life events can increase their happiness or success by choosing time. So he founded the theory of choosing time. In feng shui, it is called day shift. Japanese studies mainly include Nature, Star-making, Heluo, Doushou, Qimen, Liu Ren, Bird Show and Bai Zi.

Feng Shui experts also found that different periods of the "Three Yuan Nine Games" will also affect the quality of Yin and Yang rooms in different ways. Therefore, a variety of schools have been formed, such as three elements and six methods of metaphysics.

Because time is produced by the movement of heaven and earth, and what is perceived by people, since people and heaven and earth are one, it is natural that time will play a role in people.

According to the above analysis, the theory of geomantic omen includes not only heaven, earth, wind, water and other substances, but also time, which is an overall combination of space and time and the most comprehensive and systematic macro analysis and optimization.

Eight: architecture. Design and construction of yin and yang family and improvement of feng shui landscape.

China geomantic omen regards the design and construction in the construction of Yin-Yang House as a necessary method to follow the whole construction process of Yin-Yang House. Such as direction, lighting, size, height, color, room, stove, bed, door, furniture and other internal office selection arrangements, as well as the design and layout of wells, gatehouses, roads, bridges, toilets, water outlets and so on.

The ancients knew that no place was perfect, and some bad environments could be artificially changed. The so-called visual intelligence is a tool of strength.

From Houlongshan and Shuikoushan in ancient villages, a large number of trees have been planted and strictly protected, which shows that the ancients attached great importance to the construction of ecological environment. There are many ways to change the feng shui landscape, such as changing rivers, building bridges, roads, digging ponds, building fences, building towers, etc., in order to obtain a good living environment. This is due to Feng Shui.

Feng Shui is called these Gong Li practices, and it is also a compulsory course and kung fu of Feng Shui. So ancient feng shui masters were also architects.

Nine: follow the ceremony. The custom and etiquette of worshipping ancestors should be cautious in pursuing the future. An important way to show filial piety.

Burying ancestors is the best way for China people to search for and respect their ancestors carefully. As the saying goes, people are born in the ground and return to the ground. Choose a place with beautiful scenery and concentrated gas field, erect a monument and build a tomb, and engrave the names of ancestors, so that future generations can pay tribute to their ancestors, remember them and carry forward the past.

According to Feng Shui, in the process of burying ancestors, certain ceremonies should be held to express their grief and filial piety.

When building a villa, it should be carried out in accordance with certain ceremonies and procedures in major social or life events. Although the provisions of these ceremonies vary from place to place, they are also practical contents and an indispensable part of Feng Shui. With these ceremonies, the implementation of Feng Shui can be completed step by step and politely. This has also formed a kind of China folk heritage.

Ten: accumulate virtue. Persuade people to be filial, to be kind, to make people upward and happy, and to tell people to conform to the laws of nature and optimize the natural environment in order to improve their lives and society. This is the basic idea and the highest goal of Feng Shui.

The ancients in China believed that heaven and earth were integrated, and people's hearts were interlinked with the aura of heaven and earth. A beautiful mind can empathize with a beautiful land of Feng Shui, and a person with a beautiful mind can get a beautiful room of Yin and Yang, and can get good luck and kindness from the land of Feng Shui. On the other hand, people with ugly hearts can't get beautiful rooms of yin and yang, only ugly rooms of yin and yang, and they will only be punished by fierce feng shui. Therefore, Feng Shui attaches great importance to the shaping and purification of the minds of Feng Shui users and Mr. Feng Shui, and attaches great importance to the cultivation and accumulation of morality. Happiness comes from the heart, and the land is made by the heart.

Feng shui can change fate and win divine power, which was highly affirmed by the ancients. Geomantic omen tells people to conform to the laws of nature, realize the harmony between man and nature, and optimize the natural environment, so that there will be a good house of yin and yang, and with the auspicious induction and shade of a good geomantic place, themselves and future generations will be safe and prosperous. Therefore, if everyone can get a good land of geomantic omen and be lucky, the society will be peaceful, happy and harmonious, and the nation-state will prosper because everyone and every family have a harmonious society. This is the greatest benefit of geomantic omen to mankind.

According to the above analysis,

Therefore, it can be said that China Feng Shui is cosmology, astronomy, celestial movement orientation, geophysics, geomagnetic orientation, hydrology, geology and geomorphology, environmental landscape, natural ecological architecture, social ethics, aesthetics, anthropoinformatics, meteorology, site selection, folklore, life philosophy, metaphysics, Yi-ology, prediction, yin and yang, and five elements. This is the crystallization of the great wisdom of the ancient people in China, which should be learned and carried forward by our future generations.

However, it is undeniable that Feng Shui is not omnipotent. Feng Shui is only a force that affects life (see my article "The Role of Geographical Numerology in Life" for details). Although China's geomantic omen is vast and messy, abstruse and mysterious, which can be proved but lacks data, and is useful but without scientific basis, it still has many limitations, which are vast and boundless, bottomless, difficult to learn and operate, archaic and stagnant. Therefore, I hope that Feng Shui colleagues can abandon their prejudices, strive to innovate, keep pace with the times and constantly enrich them while engaging in archaeology today. I hope so! [Edit this paragraph] Introduction to Feng Shui Schools

In the method of regulating qi, it can be roughly divided into two schools, with several branches.

The school that directly uses gossip and hexagrams to manage qi is the hexagram school. Including Bazhai School, Kong Xuan Xing Fei School (there are six schools with more than 100 primary schools), Qimen Feng Shui, Heluo Feng Shui, Dayuan Yi Li School, Jinsuo Guan Yu and so on.

The school that adopted the principles of Hetu, Luoshu, Bagua, Yin and Yang and Five Elements in past dynasties is the Five Elements School. Including Yang Gong Feng Shui, New Trinity School, Numerology Feng Shui, Zhengwuxing Feng Shui, etc.

At present, Feng Shui in China has developed into many schools of Feng Shui, and each school of Feng Shui has different theories. The following is a detailed introduction for you:

(1) Situational School: (1) Luan Tou School (2) Imagist School (3) Formal School.

(2) Rational style: (1) Bazhai School (2) Numerology School (3) Sanhe School (4) Guagua School (5) Xing Fei School (6) Wuxing School (7) Kong Xuanda Gua School (8) Bagua School (9) Nine Planets Feibo School (10).

(3) numerology: according to the time of birth, it expounds the influence of geographical environment on people. /view/42 16.htm